Flat Battery –
Easiest way to charge it up is to re-load the plane, which you can do from the developer option screen, without having to exit and go back into the World Map. etc
Battery was fine though…
Interesting. Pretty sure I experienced this during my IRL student solo XC last winter. As I was cruising on my longest leg I started to notice my power dipped off a bit from where it was set. Maybe 75-100 rpm. Put on the carb heat, noticed the power drop and then slowly come back up. After it settled I turned off the carb heat and power was back to my original cruise power.
Good to know its simulated. Ill have to try and recreate it one day.
How do you know the battery was fine?
Looking at your instruments you appear to have the battery, and alternator connected. But you don’t appear to have any net charge going to the batteries, as the ammeter needle looks like it’s horizontal, right on the 0. You also seem to have no fuel in either tank yet the engine is running.
I wonder if due to your lower revs., perhaps you have slowly trickled the battery empty?
I’d be interest to see what you show on the Ammeter if you push the throttle in further.
That’s the reason why I never fly with damage on. There’s no point as you are never given the opportunity to deal with the damage. It just ends the flight.
Thanks, i guess it must be a hotas config bug
How do you know the battery was fine, if the plane was DEAD & DARK ??
@Garack666 did you try my tip ? Keyboard Control-Shift-E and then Control-E will “reset” the engine…
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Yeah, but the problem was within the hotas Magneto Config, it was so that it always started. Sometimes this work 5 Minutes but then Cessna went dark.
So it “stuck” CRANKING the ENGINE starter Continuously ?
That will Flatten the battery in a few minutes —
thats is it exactly…
Which is what the Monkey said is was, 23 hours ago !!! 
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A dead battery shouldn‘t quit the engine though.
Why … the c172 engine does not need a battery to stay running… the electrical spark is got from magnetos, not the battery.
You just don’t have a runnable starter, if the battery is flat.
Try it – fly it and turn off both Battery & Alternator.
To STOP a running engine, you either have to lean to full lean, or turn off the mags, or close fuel cuttoff valve – run out of Fuel
or CRASH !!!
Yeah well - and a quit engine shouldn’t lead to a crash.
As far as I gather it happened once and we don’t have the necessary details for the diagnose. If it can be reproduced reliably then there is a chance to find the mistake or isolate the bug.
The event could be handled as a most welcome practice opportunity (catching you unaware and possibly unprepared). A motor quitting for reasons that can’t be immediately diagnosed is not unheard of.
Trying to resolve the problem in whatever way without using pause would be a nice “what if” exercise.
You can do that already, kill the engine and land the plane with no power, you even get a badge (at least in steam) for a dead stick landing…I do it all the time.
No option here was flying with Onair on a 1.5 Hours flight :=
That sounds terrifying but amazing to try and perform without the engine.
Sure you can, but the “unaware and unprepared” bit really makes a difference…
Are you absolutely sure you didn’t hit the little red fuel cutoff switch at the bottom of the center console? I haven’t seen anyone ask that.